Under the terms of an agreement signed last week, Intel and OLPC will explore collaborations involving technology and educational content.
Intel will also join the board of OLPC.
OLPC aims to bring learning opportunities to the most remote and poorest children of the world by providing connected, low-cost and rugged laptops to each and every child in their daily lives.
"Intel joins the OLPC board as a world leader in technology, helping reach the world's children. Collaboration with Intel means that the maximum number of laptops will reach children," said One Laptop per Child founder Nicholas Negroponte said.
One Laptop per Child (OLPC) was created to design, manufacture, and distribute laptops that are sufficiently inexpensive to provide every child in the world access to knowledge and modern forms of education.
The laptops will be sold to governments and issued to children by schools on a basis of one laptop per child. These machines will be rugged, Linux-based, and so energy efficient that hand-cranking alone will generate sufficient power for operation. Mesh networking will give many machines Internet access from one connection.
"Joining OLPC is a further example of our commitment to education over the last 20 years and our belief in the role of technology in bringing the opportunities of the 21st century to children around the world," Intel chief executive Paul Otellini said.
Intel currently invests more than US$100 million (A$114 million) per year in more than 50 countries to promote education, and has been developing products for the educational marketplace.
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